City of Hope Hit With Class Actions Over 2023 Data Breach (1)

City of Hope National Medical Center is facing at least seven proposed class actions alleging it failed to protect the personal information of nearly 830,000 people that was exposed in a data breach that took place over a three-month period in 2023.

Plaintiffs in the separate lawsuits alleged that City of Hope, a cancer treatment and research center, failed to implement adequate data-security measures, comply with industry data-security standards, properly train its employees, or provide timely and adequate notice of the incident.

Information exposed in the breach included names, contact information, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security ...